General System Setup

• Environmental temperature, pressure
• Variety of solves and pickups for curvature and thickness specifications
• Aperture Specification:
  • Variety of solves and pickups
  • Optional aperture checking
  • Variety of aperture shapes.
    Complex apertures can be built from combinations of transmitting/obstructing ellipses/triangles/quadrangles . Limit of 2 special apertures per surface in Standard Edition.
• Complete glass specification:
  • Variety of glass models, parameters (dn/dT, expansion coefficients, transmittance…) now searchable
  • Select from manufacturers' glass catalogs, or define your own glasses
  • Glass catalogs from:
    • Shott
    • Ohara
    • Hoya
    • Corning
    • Sumita
    • Miscellaneous (IR, UV, quartz…)
• Gaussian apodization (circular or elliptical)
• Ray Aiming Modes:
  • Lagrangian (direct)
  • Hamiltonian (iterated)
• Paraxial constants and ray trace (YZ and XZ)
• Advanced aberrations analysis (text and graphic)
• Ray tracing:
  • Wide angle ray trace mode
  • Extended aperture ray trace mode
  • Polarization ray trace
  • DOE efficiency (scalar model)
  • DOE surface phase and grating spacing
  • DOE zone radii
• Focal/afocal analysis
• Lens drawings:
  • 2D Plan view (x, y, or z direction)
  • 3D Shaded Model (rotating), Wire frame 3D, Solid model 3D
  • Array drawings
  • ISO 10110 element drawings
  • Rich Surface and Ray Fans drawing options
• Field point set:
  • Unlimited field points
  • Object coordinates (y, x, z)
  • Reference surface coordinates (y, x)
  • Fractional vignetting (min and max in y, x)
  • Field point weight
• Surface Coordinates
  • 3D tilts/decenters on all surfaces
  • Tilt and bend surfaces
  • Return coordinates to previous surface
  • Global or local coordinate surface specification